Microsoft SQL Server Always On Best Practices on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Native
Microsoft SQL Server Always On Best Practices on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Native 📅 July 01, 2026 🏷️ MS SQL Server ⏱ 25 min read Article Overview: In this blogpost we will see how we can architect, deploy and configure Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AOAG) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Native — covering compute, storage, networking, the Windows cluster, the Availability Group itself, backups, monitoring and DR. This is ideal for mission-critical SQL Server workloads being migrated off VMware, Hyper-V or on-prem (e.g. with Bare Metal/VM shapes, Block Volumes, FastConnect, Private DNS). Prerequisites: System Requirements Two or more Windows Server 2022 nodes (Bare Metal or VM.Standard.E5.Flex) SQL Server 2019/2022 Enterprise Edition (required for Always On with readable secondaries) OCI tenancy with a VCN, private subnet, and Block Volume quota for Ultra High Performance volumes FastConnect (or equivalent private connectivity) if a DR replica spa...